• Posted February 24, 2022
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Jackson MSP Post welcomes two new Troopers

• By Stephanie
• Jackson County County Legal News

Fifty state troopers graduated Feb. 17 from the 140th Trooper Recruit School.

During the ceremony in Lansing, in which Gov. Gretchen Whitmer was the keynote speaker, Col. Joe Gasper, director of the Michigan State Police (MSP), administered the Oath of Office to 50 individuals. 

The Jackson Post has welcomed Trooper Shelby Blackford, and Trooper Justin Sawyer, who during the ceremony received the Team Building and Academic Achievement awards. 

The 140th Trooper Recruit School began on Aug. 22, 2021, with 74 prospective troopers, at the MSP Training Academy in Lansing. Recruits received training in patrol techniques, report writing, ethics, cultural diversity and implicit bias, decision making, leadership, first aid, criminal law, crime scene processing, firearms, water safety, defensive tactics and precision driving.

Including the 50 graduates of the 140th Trooper Recruit School, there are approximately 1,200 troopers assigned statewide, and a total of 1,900 enlisted members in the MSP.

The next recruit school, the 141st Trooper Recruit School, which is the department’s first recruit school for licensed police officers, is anticipated to begin on March 6, 2022, at the MSP Training Academy in Lansing. They are expected to graduate on May 27, 2022.

With hundreds of trooper vacancies due to continued attrition, the MSP is actively recruiting for future trooper recruit schools, including 142nd Trooper Recruit School. Persons interested in learning more should visit: www.michigan.gov/MSPjobs for information on how to apply.

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